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今日主題：Stone Age Pottery Reveals Signs of Beekeeping 石器時代陶器揭露人類養蜂歷史

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建議方法：
1. 先聽兩三遍 (不看文稿)
2. 再一句一句聽寫 (每句都要聽寫數遍，直到寫出85%以上的字)
3. 最後check文稿，看哪聽不出來，單字沒背過，還是發音不熟。
4. 堅持天天聽，就能每天進步哦。

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中英文稿：
You have bees to thank every time you drizzle some honey into your tea. And the human-honeybee relationship is long-standing. Iconography of honeybees adorns 4400-year-old walls in ancient Egypt. Rock art has been found that depicts a stone age bee harvest. But exactly when early farmers began to exploit bees has been unclear.
每次在茶水裡滴入蜂蜜時，你都要感謝蜜蜂。同時人類和蜜蜂的關係時間久遠。蜜蜂的形象在古埃及有著4400年歷史的牆壁上就曾出現。人們還發現了刻畫著石器時代蜜蜂收穫場景的岩畫。但是古代農民到底何時開始利用蜜蜂，我們尚不清楚。

Those farmers exploited bees for more than honey. Research has shown that they also employed the beeswax for cosmetics, fuel, medicine, and to perform rituals.
古代的農民不僅僅利用蜜蜂釀取蜂蜜。研究表明，他們還利用蜂蠟製成化妝品、燃料、藥品，並將蜂蠟用於宗教儀式。

Beeswax contains complex fats that leave a recognizable www.chinavoa.com residue on pottery and other archaeological artifacts. And scientists have now used that beeswax residue to analyze what they’ve determined to be the earliest known human-and-bee association, dating back some 9,000 years.
蜂蠟中含有複雜的脂類物質，這些物質可在陶器以及其他考古文物上留下可識別的殘留物。科學家們已經確定人類和蜜蜂的關係，最早可追隨到9000多年以前。現在他們利用蜂蠟的殘留物來研究這一結論。

The researchers surveyed Europe, the Near East and northern Africa. They found beeswax on pottery vessels from Neolithic farming sites in Anatolia, in or near modern-day Turkey. They also discovered the first evidence of beeswax at Neolithic sites in Northern Africa. And the lack of wax residues in Ireland, Scotland and the Scandanavian peninsula led them to conclude that those locations were above what must have been a northern limit for honeybees. The study is in the journal Nature.
研究人員調查了歐洲、近東以及北非地區。他們在安納托利亞、近現代土耳其的新石器農業考古點出土的陶器上發現了蜂蠟殘留物。同時研究人員還首次在北非的新 石器考古點發現了蜂蠟。而愛爾蘭、蘇格蘭以及Scandanavian半島未發現蜂蠟殘留物。因此，研究人員認為，這些地區一定是蜜蜂的北部邊界地區。該 研究結果發表在《自然》雜誌上。

The researchers say that the beeswax residues at these human-occupied sites may be clues pointing to the very beginnings of bee domestication. With thousands of years of sweet results for us all.
研究人員稱，在人類居住地的蜂蠟殘留物可能會是研究蜜蜂馴化開始的線索。這個結論對我們所有人來都是人類已經擁有了幾千年的甜蜜享受的證據呢。